outdated because it fails to reflect modern economic research on the complex effects of skilled migration on overseas …

their own country. Labor migration is conventionally viewed as economically benefiting the family members who are left … behind through remittances. However, splitting up families in this way may also have multiple adverse effects on education … migration on those who are left behind remains a challenging empirical question with inconclusive evidence. …

Highly-skilled migrants are becoming a more important part of the world economy and of policy debates in a diverse set … of countries. The proliferation of skills around the world, increases in world trade, the growth of R&D, and the general … increase in the labor market demand for diverse sets of skills, have all contributed to the emergence of high-skilled migration …

aging and dying -- Migrant metropolis: remittance urbanism in the United States -- Conclusion: rethinking migration and …

This paper reexamines the literature on the impact of migration on household members left behind at origin. The … empirical problem previous studies address is the self-selection of households into migration, i.e. the endogenous decision as …, 1994; Rubin, 1974). I show that the point-identification of the causal impact of migration requires strong behavioral …